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Functional organisation of the nervous system Flashcards

1
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What is the nervous system divided into?

A

Central Nervous System (CNS)

Peripheral Nervous System (PNS

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What is the CNS divided into?

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Brain

Spinal cord

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What is the PNS sub divisions?

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Sensory (afferent) division

Motor (efferent) division

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What is the sensory (afferent) division made up of?

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Somatic sensory neurons

Visceral sensory neurons

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What is the motor (efferent) division made up of?

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Autonomic nervous system (involuntary)

Somatic nervous system (voluntary)

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What are the 2 divisions of the Autonomic nervous system?

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Sympathetic division

Parasympathetic division

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What is the spinothalamic pathway made up of?

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Grey matter
White matter
Ganglion
Nucleus 
Tract
Pathway
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What is grey matter?

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High concentration of nerve cell bodies

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What is white matter?

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High concentration of nerve fibres/axons

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Why is white matter white?

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myelin gives the white appearance

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What is ganglion?

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Collection of nerve cells in CNS with particular function

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What is a tract?

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Nerve axons belonging to neurones of the same functional type (e.g. spinothalamic tract)

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What is a pathway?

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Collective set of neurons in conveying a signal from periphery to the cortex

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What are spinothalamic neurons?

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Long axon up to the brain terminates at the thalamus

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What is the spinothalamic tract?

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Sensory pathway from skin to the thalamus

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What is the PNS formed of?

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Afferent (sensory) and efferent (motor) nerve fibres

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Where do the nerve fibres from the PNS emerge

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From brain and spinal cord and innervate every structure in the body

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18
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How many cranial nerves arise from the base of the brain?

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12 pairs

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What do these cranial nerves from the base of the brain innervate?

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Head (including special sense organs)

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Are cranial nerves specific?

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Yes, some are purely sensory, some are purely motor

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21
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Where does the vagus nerve also innervate?

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Some organs of the upper body e.g. heart

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How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?

23
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What do the spinal nerves innervate?

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Remainder of the body

24
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Where do afferent/sensory axons end?

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Sensory receptors

25
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Where do efferent/motor fibres end?

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In effectors (muscle)

26
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What are spinal nerves?

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Elongation of the brain

27
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What are spinal nerve dermatomes?

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Skin areas innervated by a single spinal nerve

28
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What do spinal nerves do before reaching the spinal cord?

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Divide into Dorsal root and ventral root

29
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What is the dorsal root?

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Sensory (afferent) fibres (cell bodies= dorsal root ganglion)

30
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What is the ventral root?

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Motor (efferent) fibres (cell bodies= motonucleus)

31
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What shape is the cross section of the spinal cord?

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Butterfly shaped grey matter

32
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What is the dorsal horn?

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Mainly sensory

33
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What is the ventral horn?

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Mainly motor

34
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What is in the outer white matter?

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Ascending and descending axons

35
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What is the brain split into?

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Brainstem and Forebrain

36
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What is the Brainstem?

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Most primitive part of the brain- vital function

Brain stem reticular formation e.g. arousal vs. sleep

37
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What is the brainstem split into?

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Hindbrain and midbrain

38
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What makes up the hindbrain?

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Cerebellum
Pons
Medulla

39
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What makes up the midbrain?

40
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What is the cerebellum?

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Involved in motor control e.g. coordination and motor learning

41
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What is the pons?

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Largely white matter- connections between cortex and spinal cord, cortex and cerebellum

42
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What is the medulla?

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Relay nuclei for sensory pathways from spinal cord and cranial nerve and for descending pathways
Contains autonomic control centres

43
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What is the tectum made up of?

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Optic and auditory tectum

44
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What is the optic tectum?

A

Visual input

45
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What is the auditory tectum?

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Auditory input

46
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What is the orientation reaction in the tectum?

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Head and eye movements to foveate moving objects in peripheral visual field or look in direction of source of sound

47
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What is the Forebrain?

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Responsible for higher sensory, motor and cognitive functions

48
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What makes up the forebrain?

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Diencephalon

Telencephalon

49
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What makes up the diencephalon?

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Thalamus (relay nucleus)
Hypothalamus
Basal ganglia

50
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What makes up the telencephalon?

51
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What is the thalamus?

A

Group of sensory relay nuclei projecting to cortex

Pathways serving vision, audition, olfaction, taste and somatic

52
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What is the hypothalamus?

A

Control of autonomic functions

53
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What is the basal ganglia?

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Control of movement

3 sets of nucleus- Sub thalamic nucleus, caudate nucleus, thalamus

Physiology and Neuroscience Semester 2 (20 decks)

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